From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher) Subject: Re: Importance of the DOC project Date: 7 Apr 1993 02:38:35 GMT
Others said:
# I think that's the one key problem with the Linux newbie community right now:
# lack of basic information about UNIX. A lot of UNIX newbies are trying out
# Linux and, honestly, are lost.
This is the double-edge crux of the problem.
Prior to Linux, you had to pay real $$$ to get a _nix to play with. If
you didn't have a SERIOUS interest, you were unlikely to pay. If you
DID pay, it was because you knew already what you were doing.
Now, pholks such as me, with more disk space than hard cash & Unix
knowledge, *can* bumble along, at no cost.
But the result is: lots of newbe questions.
Maybe we need to sell Linux, with a quota of COL questions included.
Exceed that, and the special daemon wipes your partition ;-}